Rehabilitation Sciences 3061A/B Lecture 1: Lecture 1: CSD
12 May 2017
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Professions of audiology & speech language pathology: describe the scope of practice, professional regulation and practice settings of. History of audiology & speech language pathology: understand how historical factors influenced the emergence and development of. Communication disorders: define communication and it"s related disorders. Clinical practice of audiology: describe different assessment techniques, explain how multiple assessment methods are used to understand auditory system dysfunction in different populations, determine how assessment outcomes guide intervention. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important, than those of blindness. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus--the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir and keeps us in the intellectual company of man. What we do: clinical service: assess, diagnose, treat, seek to prevent. Ex. teachers, laryngectomy patients, transsexual clients/sexual reassignments paralyzed vocal folds, vocal fold growths.
